On 1/24/19, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:42:59 -0500, Dave <dbola...@offilive.com> declaimed > the following: >> >>3. File location? I'm using Ubuntu and I believe that the correct >>location would be home/.config/<app-name> . What about Mac and Windows? >> > Windows? > > %UserProfile%\Roaming\<application>
That should be "%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming". This is the default path, which should never be used directly because "Roaming" is relocatable. Use "%AppData%" instead. That said, relying on environment variables isn't the best practice. The value might be wrong if the folder was relocated after our process tree was created. Use the shell's well-known-folder interface instead. For example: import pythoncom from win32com.shell import shell kfmgr = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance( shell.CLSID_KnownFolderManager, None, pythoncom.CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, shell.IID_IKnownFolderManager) appdata = kfmgr.GetFolder(shell.FOLDERID_RoamingAppData) appdata_path = appdata.GetPath() IKnownFolderManager interface: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/shobjidl_core/nn-shobjidl_core-iknownfoldermanager IKnownFolder interface: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/shobjidl_core/nn-shobjidl_core-iknownfolder -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list